It was 18 years ago today that Lizzie passed away. I can't believe how fast time is passing since then!
I'm going to give you a little slice of me from my journal (condensed and edited) from two days the week Elizabeth passed away. For setup purposes, I was enrolled at the College of Eastern Utah in my first year of school which was HORRIBLE!! I pretty much despised every minute of it because I was so homesick and I worked at McDonald's (BLEH!!!). It was around finals time. I was also living at my Grandma Pierce's...no wonder I didn't like College the first time around! I also had a painting in the art show and was quite excited at the prospect of it selling....
Thursday, May 18, 1995
I woke up at 11:00 because last night I went roller-blading until 1 AM so I didn't go to school. I watched TV most of the afternoon and then at 2:30 I went to work. It was special! At 7:00 I went home early because I wanted to go to the opening of the art exhibit. At home Grandma told me that Tracey (my cousin) called and so I called him. He told me that Elizabeth Montgomery had died. She played Samantha on Bewitched. I was crushed. And over somebody I had never met. So, I cried a little. There's nothing wrong with that. I went to the college to the art exhibit and spoke to many people about why I was not happy. Afterwards, I went to Tracey's to watch a clip about Elizabeth he recorded on Entertainment Tonight. It was nice. Then I went to my Aunt Leatrice's. Janene was there with Doug, this kid she likes with another friend of his, I think his name is Jeff. I told them the sad news and Jeff seemed concerned but he was probably just playing around. I ate some chicken salad and then watched some of the news with Leatrice. They had a little thing about it on there. Janene and the boys had left and we watched the Dancing Itos (a play on Judge Ito from the OJ Simpson trial) on Jay Leno. After that I went home and watched Extra. They had a very good piece about Liz Montgomery. Then I watched an episode of Bewitched and went to bed.
Saturday, May 20, 1995 I came back to my parent's house for the weekend because I was very depressed about Elizabeth's passing. I had always pictured her doing a Bewitched reunion show or at least a special but more importantly I had always thought I was going to meet her. I envisioned interviewing her and writing a book about her. So I was depressed. I decided to go shopping and bought my mom an Alice in Wonderland shirt from the Disney store after walking around for awhile.
I called my friend Janette and told her I was depressed and she said we should have a candle light vigil later that night because my family was going to a pre-screening of the Casper the Friendly Ghost movie. It turned out my mom had told some friend she would go to her singing concert, Heather was sleeping over at a friend's, and yeah right, like Paul would ever do anything with us, so it was just my dad, me and Pibby. The movie was packed and we had to sit close to the screen but it was good.
When we got home we found out that Mom had only gone to the concert for 10 minutes and left because she felt bad for ditching us. She tried to find us but the movie wasn't listed in the paper because it was a pre-screening so she went and bought Doritos, Cheesecake Mix and Mt. Dew for my candle-light vigil. She also had started straightening up the house and I helped her finish up and then made the cheesecake. Mom and Dad went to bed and Janette, her friend Jen and my cousin Pamela showed up with candles. We set them around the TV and then I read this saying from Bewitched's second episode:
We are quicksilver, a fleeting shadow, a distant sound. Our home has no boundaries beyond which we cannot pass. We live in music, in a flash of color. We live on the wind and in the sparkle of a star.
By the way, I want that on my grave. It serves it's purpose for both witches and spirits.
Then I took a xeroxed photo of Liz reading a Bewitched comic book (because I thought she looked so pretty) and set it to flame by touching the corner of it to one of the candles. For some reason, it really helped to watch the flames engulf her. Something eerie happened too: the fire burned the picture except when it reached her face and then it went around it before it started to burn that too. Then we hummed "Amazing Grace" cause we didn't know the words. And to finish we watched episode #117: "That Was No Chick, That Was My Wife" because it was the best one from the ones I had recorded that show-cased her talent. We ate the chips and the cheesecake and then the girls left and I went to bed."I never did dig what Sammy dug about that dodo." ~ Serena
Aw, that was good to read. I especially noticed your saying that you had wanted to write a book about her....Cool thing is--you did."Witches are good! Witches are dear!"
Re: RIP Elizabeth Montgomery
Posted by Melanie on May 26, 2013, 12:10 pm, in reply to "RIP Elizabeth Montgomery" Queen of the Harpies
Thanks for sharing that. I finding out the news in such detail, too. But I like that you had the additional detail about what you ate at the vigil and things like that. Your family is so close and supportive. Even in these brief snippets, you can tell. I love it!Sow's ears are not made into silk purses by the addition of a few dandelions, Samantha!